Description: Deciduous trees, to 18 m high, bark 8-10 mm thick, white or whitish-grey, smooth, lenticellate, scurfy, exfoliating in thin flakes; blaze yellow, with triangular rays; branchlets stout, tomentose. Leaves simple, opposite, estipulate; petiole 5-12.5 cm long, slender, tomentose; lamina 7.5-25 x 6-20 cm, broadly ovate or ovate, base cordate truncate or rounded, apex acute or acuminate, margin entire, glabrous above and tomentose beneath, glaucous beneath, coriaceous; nerves 3-5 from base, lateral nerves 3-6, pinnate, prominent, prominent, puberulent beneath; intercostae scalariform, prominent; 2 glands above on either side of the midrib. Flowers bisexual, yellow with orange-pink shade, in terminal panicles 3-3.7 cm long; calyx 6 mm long, campanulate, 5 toothed, tomentose; corolla 3 cm across, bilabiate, tube ventricose, lobes 5, subequal, obovate, obtuse, densely hairy; stamens 4, didynamous; anthers 2 mm, divaricate; ovary 4 mm, superior, syncarpous, glabrous, ovules 4; style 2 cm, slender, glabrous, unequally bifid. Fruit a drupe 2.5-3.5 x 1-1.5 cm, ovoid, pulpy, pyrene bonny, ovoid with a deep depression, yellow; seeds 2-4, elliptic.

Flowering and fruiting: February- April

Uses: Medicine, fodder, Wind break, Live fence, Green manure, Timber, Implements

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